Project Manager Human Resources

Abdus ST Aziz

**-** *** ** ********, NY *****

Home Phone: 516-***-**** – Cell Phone 917-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Objective

To obtain an analyst-level position in a growth-oriented organization where my management, technical and interpersonal skills can

provide value-added support and be utilized to a mutual benefit and advancement.

Summary

Result-driven Analyst with experience in business and IT consulting focusing on the financial and retirement industry.

Articulate communicator with excellent analytical skills adaptable across several industries. Strong track record of ability

to manage core client relationships and influence multi-million dollar business decisions through actionable

recommendations. Self-motivated individual with collaborative attitude for success in a team environment. Ability to give

recommendations to portfolio managers on how to set up different financial applications that suits their performance and

compliance goals across different asset classes.

Education

BERNARD BARUCH COLLEGE

Bachelors of Business Administration

Major in Computer Information Systems

Minor in Political Science

GPA 3.62

Work Experience

Business Consultant July 2007 – March 2009

Advent Software New York, NY

Provided exemplary professional services for Advent’s state of the art portfolio accounting systems (APX) and Axys.

Consulted on reconciliation, performance management, composite management, analytics, fixed income, and reporting.

Assisted product development teams with investigation and correction of software bugs and deficiencies based on testing

results. Created analysis documentation based on information gathered from clients and converted them into technical

specifications for product development teams.

Worked closely with Quality Assurance teams for portfolio accounting systems during new system upgrades and builds.

Created and modified existing testing plans to quantify for changes made relevant to the upgrade.

Assisted in integration with Moxy(TOMS) to help clients improve existing trading workflow. Trained clients on new Moxy

features and upgrades.

Collaborated with clients to enhance their current operations procedures from new accounts, portfolio accounting,

reconciliation, trading, and settlement workflows. During migrations and parallel period, helped clients complete

reconciliation and other operations procedures to alleviate implementation experience.

Responsible for primary migrations and conversions from previous platforms. Ability to manage the CRM functionality,

from billing, banking, and primary contacts for underlying portfolios. Training clients on CRM functionality and managing

activities within the system.

System Analyst December 2005 – June 2007

Hewitt Associates Norwalk, CT

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PROJECT – Hewitt Associates

Client - Xerox Corporation

Industry: Human Resources Outsourcing

Position: System Analyst

A Hewitt HR solution for the client’s defined contribution, defined benefit, health and welfare plans. Implementation was one of the

largest projects undertaken at the same time to provide the client with over 30,000 participants access to an all our around working

solution. Provided project planning, system analysis and design including requirements definition, user support activities, testing,

configuration and documentation.

Responsibilities:

Worked with daily valuation team to verify prices for the new fund line up. Created transition plan to capture all required

changes and communication channels with TRUST and fund managers.

Configured and customized key retirement depletion processes for several payment activities vital for a successful

implementation.

Monitored the progress of module and unit completion and communicated team schedule and status information to the

Benefits Implementation Manager, Systems Project Manager, and Lead Systems Analyst as appropriate.

Collaborated with senior management to ensure TBA SDLC is followed throughout the implementation for the timely

completion of the project.

Trained the testing team on automated testing tools for TBA GUI to eliminate double testing and to ensure that managers

have more control over the testing progress.

Configured total distribution events for retired populations, hardship withdrawals, contribution activities and majority of loan

set up that required the most tailoring.

Mapped the conversion data fields and coordinated development of conversion programs with the conversion data assistance

team.

Managed test databases (data and database size) and maintained the master list of test conditions for regression testing.

PROJECT – Hewitt Associates

Client - AXA-Equitable and Xerox Corporation

Industry: Human Resources Outsourcing

Position: System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Provided workflow support to ensure their resolution, completion, and process improvement for elimination.

Worked with ongoing development group to solve system errors that occurred in the production environment.

Reviewed year end changes for multiple clients and wrote necessary AQUAS to update the required tables for the year end

payroll functions.

Coordinated in creating automated test plans for personalized communication statements (PCS) to eliminate manual testing

before a production load.

Created analysis artifacts for configuration work with detailed instructions on provisional changes specified by client’s

requirements.

Provided deliverable tracking/management, defect tracking and reporting across multiple streams.

PROJECT – Hewitt Associates

Client - New York Life Corporation

Industry: Human Resources Outsourcing

Position: System Analyst

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The defined contribution implementation was a key part of providing HR systems consulting services for over 25,000 participants.

The objective of the project was to offer a complete solution in all areas ranging from contributions, loans, and withdrawals.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the batch and TBA (Total Benefits Administration) event processes and identified any conversion event tailoring

required for data processing.

Created comprehensive test plans (unit, integration, acceptance, and regression) to test the overall system functionality based

on client requirements.

Monitored outstanding programming issues until they were resolved.

Worked with Setup Configuration Analysts to create detailed unit test plan for non-high risk functionality per Gap Analysis.

Collaborated with the Lead Systems Analyst to complete detailed analysis on service modules and units to ensure consistency

with client requirements.

Junior System Analyst June 2003-November 2005

Cysco Soft Corporation New York, NY

Demonstrated knowledge of full project systems development life cycle, provide user guidance, and business rules

documentation to business partner.

Gathered requirements and defined specifications for system comprising servers, client-server and web applications.

Defined business scope and assumptions, estimated resource and work requirements and suggested effective strategies to

meet business objectives.

Identified potential areas of automation and reengineered underlying business processes.

Helped set up system databases, interfaces and web-enabled applications for doctor offices using different medical billing

software’s.

Skills

Software: Advanced PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Word, Project, Visio, Lotus Notes, Visual Studio.net, Dream weaver MX

2004, Adobe Acrobat, Crystal Reports, VMware, and Internet Explorer

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000, NT, Client Server

Computer Languages: HTML, SQL, SAS, JCL

Database: DB2, Command-level CICS, SQL Server 2000 & 2005

Advent Software: Advent Portfolio Exchange, Axys, Advent Custodial Data, Report Writer Pro, Rex, DTCC, Partner

References ** Available Upon Request **

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